links for 2008-04-16

• FieldFindr » home (project wiki)
  A space where teachers can meet global citizens who have skills that they are willing to contribute to a class.
  (tags: globalcitizenship globalvoices collaborativeprojects collaboration education school learning)
• Tweetburner
  A tool for directly posting shortened URLs to Twitter for your blog posts or other sites you want to share. Keeps statistics on the number of clicks your tweeted URLs receive. Cool. (Nod to Eric Hileman for this.)
  (tags: twitter url link collaboration web2 WebTools)
• Designing and Delivering Effective Online Instruction
  A week long workshop I shared for instructors and professors in the Domincan Republic in May 2005.
  (tags: instruction delivering designing elearning distributedlearning DistanceLearning)
• Yahoogle LLC is parent company of VoiceThread.com
  Corpration info from Florida about VoiceThread (www.sunbiz.org – Department of State)
  (tags: voicethread)
• Twitter for iPhone
  twitter web application for iphone
  (tags: twitter iphone webapp webapps collaboration)
• Could Twitter Threaten Free Speech? – Harvard Business Online’s Tom Davenport
  A higher ed professor suggests that backchannel discussions on Twitter could shut down wireless access for students in colleges. Let’s hope he is wrong. (I personally think he is.) via Chris Watson
  (tags: twitter web2.0 disruptivetechnology collaboration backchannel)
• 2008 Portraits of Learning Photo Contest for K-12 Students
  From Adobe and Technology and Learning magazine
  (tags: photography contest DigitalPhotography)
• Cable in the Classroom – eLECTIONS
  eLECTIONS is a powerful online learning experience that demonstrates how broadband technology – with its capacity to deliver video, audio, excellent inter-activity, design and content – can support active, meaningful and memorable learning
  (tags: elections government SocialStudies learning game games simulation simulations)
• MyDragonNet | Mrs. Navis
  initial blog post of dialog between my son’s 4th grade class in Edmond, OK and 3rd/4th grade students in Hong Kong. Boy I am thrilled to see this collaboration happening! 🙂
  (tags: blog blogging collaboration collaborativeprojects oklahoma)

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